MONSTROUS CRIME
BELGIAN’S AMAZING STORY. TWO MORE MURDERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aesociatlos. BRUSSELS, March 18. Emile Depret has confessed that he was responsible for the deaths of a man and woman found drowned in the Samhre. The deaths hitherto had been a mystery. Emile Depret, 18 years old, confos. sed at Mons to five murders. He said he never went without a revolver, and delighted in shooting passere-by for sport. Recently he found an axe, with which he battered a miner to death, simply to try his strength. He did not know the man, but waa pleased to find sixpence in his pocket.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11783, 20 March 1924, Page 7
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104MONSTROUS CRIME New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11783, 20 March 1924, Page 7
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